First Winter Storm to kickoff 2025-26 Winter season

[ineedsnow]

sticking nicely everything whitened up.. getting some nice burst

[ineedsnow]

HRRR close to a inch of qpf here.. we take! 

[Ski Patroller]

Colebrook, NW CT, start time 910AM, 0.5" at 1015AM. T=28.2F.

[Fozz]

1 hour ago, mreaves said:

Wait, you're in Worcester now?

Yep I am, just announced the other day.

Snowing for real now

[dryslot]

14z RAP bumping up a bit on the qpf.

[weatherwiz]

flakes size improving here a bit. continuing to come down nicely. This is the best part of winter, just sitting at the computer looking out the big glass door window and watching the snow fall. 

[UnitedWx]

1 hour ago, ineedsnow said:

13z HRRR coming in a bit colder again

If you believe the latest runs, I may actually do pretty well in both my locations... and have to cover my friends plow route tonight

[Sey-Mour Snow]

Steady precipitation is 100% freezing rain here 

[UnitedWx]

3 hours ago, KTBFFH1905 said:

I am baffled at Avon closing schools, but it always fun watching the girls react to the news. 

Makes sense now, the roads are a mess. Couple accidents in Sismbury already...

[WxWatcher007]

2 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

Steady precipitation is 100% freezing rain here 

Yikes. Didn’t really expect prolonged ZR in CT today.

[Sey-Mour Snow]

1 minute ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Yikes. Didn’t really expect prolonged ZR in CT today.

Should get a tenth at most before we get above freezing 

[Brian5671]

started as rain here despite the hysteria on social media

[tavwtby]

8 minutes ago, Ski Patroller said:

Colebrook, NW CT, start time 910AM, 0.5" at 1015AM. T=28.2F.

route 8 is a mess north of thomaston probably quarter mile vis, and nice snow growth, flake size 

[metagraphica]

33/27  not a drop of rain yet.  Should be soon.

[Kitz Craver]

Moderate IP/ZR mix back to 28F

[Kitz Craver]

Pretty slick out here

[Typhoon Tip]

53 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Yikes. Didn’t really expect prolonged ZR in CT today.

I did ... or proposed the band of ZR idea, yesterday.   Not surprising for me. 

It's a 'reasonable' sort of compromise on insisting a 20F DP event-entrance air mass clung to the surface being perhaps too quickly phase changed to straight rain by the models.  1200' to sfc doesn't modulate that fast with flow rates less than 22kts at the boundary pause ( the level where surface drag finally fades to free air/laminar motion).  That's an old index finger rule velocity for scouring out dammed air. 

[ORH_wxman]

There's actually a pretty nice cross-hair sig in that little CCB ending for central/Eastern MA late this evening on some of the mesos....if things break right, might see a nice 3 hour burst or so. 

 

[das]

2 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I know what you mean ...  I don't mean to sound condescending/boomer-ish but, I think that relative to your age they've been less occurring.

I remember several in the 1980s and 1990s.   They're just not as common anymore - gee wonder why ...  They're also no a big deal. If treatment is applied to the walkways and roads they're reduced to a non-story.  Problems is, the latter seldom was in time. 

 

That was my experience as well.  But, now that I've moved to NW VT, flash freezes seem to be a real thing again.  Maybe its the strong low level surge created by channeling as winds shift to the NW post fropa, especially on backdoors.  

[das]

Just crossed the 2" mark here in Charlotte.  25ºF.

Oops, wrong thread.

[powderfreak]

14 minutes ago, das said:

That was my experience as well.  But, now that I've moved to NW VT, flash freezes seem to be a real thing again.  Maybe its the strong low level surge created by channeling as winds shift to the NW post fropa, especially on backdoors.  

There’s nothing stopping cold coming down the Champlain Valley.  BTV does flash freezes better than almost anyone… because it also gets warm on the south flow ahead of fronts.  I think that side does it much better than here east of the Spine.  

Then add in some upslope snow squalls as the front hits the terrain… some of the worst short term road conditions imaginable.

[Prismshine Productions]

An inch of compact wet diamond dust here... Rates supposed to pick up?

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[Brewbeer]

29/27 here, about an inch or so on the ground, good snow growth

[dryslot]

The euro just caught on to the qpf up here at 12z............

[moneypitmike]

My GYX p/c now limits my mix to between 2-3pm.  I can deal with that. 

[kdxken]

 

[Cyclone-68]

Waiting expectantly at my window looking for the first rain drops 

[moneypitmike]

1 minute ago, kdxken said:

 

Wow---that's surprising to me.

[moneypitmike]

An update from GYX.  Love to see it as I'm sitting at 26*

What I am watching closely is temps along the coast
tracking the location of the coastal front. Temps are dropping
along the Midcoast as the front drifts east......
So my gut feeling is
that if it has not significantly warmed up along the coast by
now it is unlikely to do so from this point forward.
Snowfall rates thru evening will be 1 inch or more per hour at
times...especially under the largely stationary band paralleling
the storm track. As a result snowfall amounts are higher than
previous forecasts especially for coastal southwestern Maine
into Rockingham County NH. 

[moneypitmike]

I'll give kudos to a few models which had placed a snow hole on my head for a while on several runs.  I had figured it would disappear but it kept showing up.  It's now showed up for real.....it's been meager for the past hour and the radar wants that hole to hang out for a while more.